They regarded the Neutral as the main authority and recognized the Alexandrian
as very similar. They regarded the Western (with its tendency to exercise a
freedom of addition, and sometimes omission) as inferior and rejected the Syrian
...

Josephus also alludes to a rabbinical tradition that Ezra closed the canon of the
Bible; this tradition, which is unfounded in fact, is probably an implicit attack on
the Alexandrian collection. Another rabbinical tradition attributes the definition of
...

Even in artificial word games and comparisons, foreign to our modern
sensibilities, allegories nurtured the Alexandrian imagination. The task meant
interpreting the sources not by paraphrase and imitation but by transposing
mythical contents ...